Computer history - 1900 - 1940
Updated: 03/12/2022 by Computer Hope
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1900 | Howard H. Aiken was born on March 8, 1900. |
| 1900 | Nikola Tesla develops frequency hopping, now known as spread spectrum. |
| 1900 | Haskell Curry was born on September 12, 1900. |
| 1901 | Allen DuMont was born on January 29, 1901. |
| 1901 | The first radio message was sent across the Atlantic Ocean in Morse code. |
| 1901 | Arthur Samuel was born in 1901. |
| 1901 | Elisha Gray passed away on January 21, 1901 (Age: 66). |
| 1901 | Hubert Cecil Booth received a patent for the first powered vacuum cleaner on August 30, 1901. |
| 1901 | Enrico Fermi was born on September 29, 1901. |
| 1901 | Rudolf Hell was born on December 19, 1901. |
| 1902 | The first issue of Popular Mechanics was published on January 11, 1902. |
| 1902 | Walter Brattain was born on February 10, 1902. |
| 1902 | Louis Couffignal was born on March 16, 1902. |
| 1902 | 3M was founded in 1902. |
| 1902 | Wallace Eckert was born on June 19, 1902. |
| 1902 | Mina Rees was born on August 2, 1902. |
| 1902 | The French silent film "A Trip to the Moon" was first released on September 1, 1902, and was considered to be the first science fiction film. |
| 1902 | In October 1902, Guglielmo Marconi was able to telegraph the letter "S" across the English Channel which became the first successful transatlantic radiotelegraph message. |
| 1902 | Laszlo Kozma was born on November 28, 1902. |
| 1903 | Jean-Maurice-Emile Baudot passed away on March 28, 1903 (Age: 58). |
| 1903 | Alonzo Church was born on June 14, 1903. |
| 1903 | Nikola Tesla patents electrical logic circuits called "gates" or "switches." |
| 1903 | Wilbur and Orville Wright both took the first flight on December 17, 1903. |
| 1903 | John von Neumann was born on December 28, 1903. |
| 1903 | John Vincent Atanasoff was born on October 4, 1903. |
| 1904 | The Apple macOS epoch time is set to start on January 1, 1904. |
| 1904 | Samuel Caldwell was born on January 15, 1904. |
| 1904 | George Stibitz was born on April 20, 1904. |
| 1904 | Eadweard Muybridge passed away on May 8, 1904 (Age: 74). |
| 1904 | Hayyim Slonimski passed away on May 15, 1904 (Age: 94). |
| 1904 | John Ambrose Fleming experimented with Edison's diode vacuum tubes and created the first commercial diode vacuum tube. |
| 1904 | Lear Romec was founded in 1904. |
| 1905 | Derrick Lehmer was born on February 23, 1905. |
| 1905 | Laszlo Kalmar was born on March 27, 1905. |
| 1905 | Willgodt Odhner passed away on September 15, 1905 (Age: 60). |
| 1905 | Thomas Flowers was born on December 22, 1905. |
| 1906 | The IEC was founded in London England in 1906. |
| 1906 | Arnold I. Dumey was born in 1906. |
| 1906 | Reginald Fessenden made the first AM radio broadcast. |
| 1906 | Chester Carlson was born on February 8, 1906. |
| 1906 | Kurt Godel was born on April 28, 1906. |
| 1906 | Reynold Johnson was born on July 16, 1906. |
| 1906 | Honeywell was founded in 1906 by Mark Honeywell. |
| 1906 | Xerox was founded in 1906. |
| 1906 | Philo Farnsworth was born on August 19, 1906. |
| 1906 | Grace Hopper was born on December 9, 1906. |
| 1907 | Paul Eisler was born in 1907. |
| 1907 | Lee De Frost filed patent #879,532 on January 29, 1907, for the vacuum tube triode. The patent was later used as an electronic switch in the first electronic computer. |
| 1907 | Charles Krum filed for U.S. patent 862,402 in August 1907 that helped create the teleprinter. |
| 1907 | Gordon Brown was born on August 30, 1907. |
| 1907 | John Mauchly was born on August 30, 1907. |
| 1907 | IBM filed for its first US patent, #998,631 on October 11, 1907. |
| 1908 | Charles Krum filed for U.S. patent 888,335 in May 1908 that helped create the teleprinter. |
| 1908 | John Bardeen was born on May 23, 1908. |
| 1908 | Olivetti was founded on October 29, 1908. |
| 1908 | The film "A Visit To The Seaside" became the first film commercially produced in natural color in December 1908. |
| 1909 | Bryant Computer Products was founded in 1909. |
| 1909 | Ralph Palmer was born in 1909. |
| 1909 | Stephen Kleene was born on January 5, 1909. |
| 1909 | Edmund Berkeley was born on February 22, 1909. |
| 1909 | Geoffrey Dummer was born on February 25, 1909. |
| 1909 | Harry Goode was born on June 30, 1909. |
| 1909 | Antoni Kilinski was born on October 20, 1909. |
| 1909 | The Bryant Chucking Grinder Co. was founded in 1909 by William Leroy Bryant. |
| 1910 | William Shockley was born on February 13, 1910. |
| 1910 | Charles Krum filed U.S. patent 1,286,351 in May 1910 that helped create the teleprinter. |
| 1910 | Konrad Zuse was born on June 22, 1910. |
| 1910 | The first pair of audio headphones were invented by Nathaniel Baldwin in 1910. |
| 1910 | Hitachi was founded in 1910. |
| 1910 | William Higinbotham was born on October 25, 1910. |
| 1910 | Henry Babbage, Charles Babbage's youngest son, completed a portion of the Analytical Engine and was able to perform basic calculations. |
| 1911 | Major H.A. "Jimmie" Erickson took the first photos from a plane on January 10, 1911. |
| 1911 | Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov was born in 1911. |
| 1911 | Cuthbert Hurd was born on April 5, 1911. |
| 1911 | The company now known as IBM was founded on June 16, 1911, in the state of New York. IBM was originally known as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R), a consolidation of the Computing Scale Company, and The International Time Recording Company. |
| 1911 | Frederic Williams was born on June 26, 1911. |
| 1911 | Louis Ridenour was born on June 27, 1911. |
| 1911 | William Norris was born on July 14, 1911. |
| 1911 | IBM was granted its first patent #998,631 on July 25, 1911. |
| 1911 | Jan Rajchman was born on August 10, 1911. |
| 1911 | Allen Coombs was born on October 23, 1911. |
| 1912 | Helmut Hoelzer was born on February 27, 1912. |
| 1912 | Steven Coons was born on March 7, 1912. |
| 1912 | Alan Turing was born on June 23, 1912. |
| 1912 | Helmut Schreyer was born on July 4, 1912. |
| 1912 | David Packard was born on September 7, 1912. |
| 1912 | G. N. Lewis began work on the lithium battery. |
| 1912 | Oliver Standingford was born on October 9, 1912. |
| 1913 | Julian Bigelow was born in 1913. |
| 1913 | Stephen Dunwell was born on April 3, 1913. |
| 1913 | William Hewlett was born on May 20, 1913. |
| 1913 | Maurice Wilkes was born on June 26, 1913. |
| 1913 | Herman Goldstine was born on September 13, 1913. |
| 1913 | Robert Adler was born on December 4, 1913. |
| 1914 | Bernard Kardon was born on January 8, 1914. |
| 1914 | Thomas Watson, Jr. was born on January 14, 1914. |
| 1914 | I. Bernard Cohen was born on March 1, 1914. |
| 1914 | Paul Rand was born on August 15, 1914. |
| 1914 | Cyril Cleverdon was born on September 9, 1914. |
| 1914 | George Dantzig was born on November 8, 1914. |
| 1915 | Joseph Licklider was born on March 11, 1915. |
| 1915 | Richard Hamming was born on February 11, 1915. |
| 1915 | The first telephone call was made across the continent. |
| 1915 | Borje Langefors was born on May 21, 1915. |
| 1915 | Nicholas Metropolis was born on June 11, 1915. |
| 1915 | John Tukey was born on June 16, 1915. |
| 1915 | Arthur Walter Burks was born on October 13, 1915. |
| 1915 | The original rotoscope was a reverse-projection device invented by Max Fleischer in 1915. |
| 1916 | Harry Huskey was born on January 19, 1916. |
| 1916 | Fredrik Idestam passed away on April 8, 1916 (Age: 78). |
| 1916 | Claude Shannon was born on April 30, 1916. |
| 1916 | Herbert Simon was born on June 15, 1916. |
| 1916 | Morgan Sparks was born on July 6, 1916. |
| 1916 | Petro Vlahos was born on August 20, 1916. |
| 1916 | The Curtiss Wright company was founded in 1916. |
| 1916 | Christopher Strachey was born on November 16, 1916. |
| 1917 | Nikon was founded in 1917. |
| 1917 | Ralph Meagher was born in 1917. |
| 1917 | Ralph Slutz was born in 1917. |
| 1917 | Winifred Asprey was born on April 8, 1917. |
| 1917 | George Grant passed away on August 16, 1917 (Age: 68). |
| 1917 | Hugh Ross was born on August 31, 1917. |
| 1917 | On September 9, 1917, one of the earliest records of OMG (Oh My God) was used by British Admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher when writing to Winston Churchill in a 1917 correspondence. |
| 1917 | Robert Fano was born on November 11, 1917. |
| 1917 | Arthur C. Clark was born on December 16, 1917. |
| 1918 | ANSI, otherwise known as the American National Standards Institute, was formed. |
| 1918 | Wen Chow was born in 1918. |
| 1918 | Tatung was founded in 1918. |
| 1918 | John Pasta was born in 1918. |
| 1918 | Richard Canning was born in 1918. |
| 1918 | Alexander L'vovich Brudno was born on January 10, 1918. |
| 1918 | Andrew Booth was born on February 11, 1918. |
| 1918 | Arthur Scherbius filed for a patent of the Enigma machine on February 23, 1918. |
| 1918 | Panasonic was founded on March 18, 1918. |
| 1918 | William Eccles and F.W. Jordan built the world's first flip-flop. |
| 1918 | Clifford Berry was born on April 19, 1918. |
| 1918 | Karl Braun passed away on April 20, 1918 (Age: 67). |
| 1918 | Bashir Rameyev was born on May 1, 1918. |
| 1918 | Richard Feynman was born on May 11, 1918. |
| 1918 | Kurt Lehovec was born on June 12, 1918. |
| 1918 | Jay Forrester was born on July 14, 1918. |
| 1918 | Sidney Harman was born on August 4, 1918. |
| 1918 | Herbert Grosch was born on September 13, 1918. |
| 1918 | Hermann Zapf was born on November 8, 1918. |
| 1918 | Klaus Samelson was born on December 21, 1918. |
| 1919 | Stanley Frankel was born in 1919. |
| 1919 | Nathan Rochester was born on January 14, 1919. |
| 1919 | Russel Ackoff was born on February 12, 1919. |
| 1919 | Trevor Pearcey was born on March 5, 1919. |
| 1919 | Andrew F. Kay was born on March 22, 1919. |
| 1919 | John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert, Jr. was born on April 9, 1919. |
| 1919 | Harlan Mills was born on May 14, 1919. |
| 1919 | Jeffrey Chu was born on July 14, 1919. |
| 1919 | John Pinkerton was born on August 2, 1919. |
| 1919 | James Wilkinson was born on September 27, 1919. |
| 1919 | Olympus was established on October 12, 1919, by Takeshi Yamashita. |
| 1920 | Niels Bech was born in 1920. |
| 1920 | Heinz Zemanek was born on January 1, 1920. |
| 1920 | Isaac Asimov was born on January 2, 1920. |
| 1920 | An Wang was born on February 7, 1920. |
| 1920 | Bob Bemer was born on February 8, 1920. |
| 1920 | James Pomerene was born on June 22, 1920. |
| 1920 | First radio broadcasting began in United States, Pittsburgh, PA. |
| 1920 | Kenneth Iverson was born on December 17, 1920. |
| 1921 | Robert Prim was born in 1921. |
| 1921 | The first Radio Shack store opened in 1921. |
| 1921 | Lotfali Zadeh was born on February 4, 1921. |
| 1921 | Kathleen Antonelli was born on February 12, 1921. |
| 1921 | Alexander (Sandy) Shafto Douglas was born on May 21, 1921. |
| 1921 | Robert Everett was born on June 26, 1921. |
| 1921 | Forrest Parry was born on July 4, 1921. |
| 1921 | John Bennet was born on July 31, 1921. |
| 1921 | Czech playwright Karel Capek coins the term "robot" in the 1921 play RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots). |
| 1921 | Tom Kilburn was born on August 11, 1921. |
| 1921 | Gerald Estrin was born on September 9, 1921. |
| 1922 | MPAA was established in 1922. |
| 1922 | Charles Hamblin was born in 1922. |
| 1922 | Georgy Adelson-Velsky was born on January 8, 1922. |
| 1922 | Saul Rosen was born on February 8, 1922. |
| 1922 | Ralph Baer was born on March 8, 1922. |
| 1922 | Alan Perlis was born on April 1, 1922. |
| 1922 | Keith Uncapher was born on April 1, 1922. |
| 1922 | Alexander Graham Bell passed away on August 2, 1922 (Age: 75). |
| 1922 | Wayne Green was born on September 3, 1922. |
| 1922 | Percy Ludgate passed away on October 16, 1922 (Age: 38). |
| 1922 | Werner Buchholz was born on October 24, 1922. |
| 1922 | Gene Amdahl was born on November 16, 1922. |
| 1922 | Stanford Ovshinsky was born on November 24, 1922. |
| 1922 | Tripp Lite was founded in 1922 by Graham Trippe. |
| 1923 | Otto Steiger passed away in 1923. |
| 1923 | Corrado Böhm was born in 1923. |
| 1923 | Joseph Weizenbaum was born on January 8, 1923. |
| 1923 | Wilhelm Rontgen passed away on February 10, 1923. |
| 1923 | Herman Lukoff was born on May 2, 1923. |
| 1923 | Eugene Kleiner was born on May 12, 1923. |
| 1923 | Edgar Codd was born on August 23, 1923. |
| 1923 | Jack St. Clair Kilby, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the Integrated Circuit, handheld calculator, and the thermal printer was born on November 8, 1923. |
| 1923 | Donald Michie was born on November 11, 1923. |
| 1923 | Peter Elias was born on November 23, 1923. |
| 1923 | Hama Photo was founded in 1923 by Martin Hanke. |
| 1924 | The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R) was renamed to IBM on February 14, 1924. |
| 1924 | David Evans was born on February 24, 1924. |
| 1924 | Donald Shell was born on March 1, 1924. |
| 1924 | Enid Mumford was born on March 6, 1924. |
| 1924 | George Pake was born on April 1, 1924. |
| 1924 | Evelyn Granville was born on May 1, 1924. |
| 1924 | Donald Davies was born on June 7, 1924. |
| 1924 | CATV and cable broadcasting began being used in some European cities. |
| 1924 | Friedrich Bauer was born on June 10, 1924. |
| 1924 | Gerrot Blaauw was born on July 17, 1924. |
| 1924 | Max Palevsky was born on July 24, 1924. |
| 1924 | Leo Fantl was born on August 8, 1924. |
| 1924 | Georgii Lopato was born on August 23, 1924. |
| 1924 | Jean Hoerni was born on September 26, 1924. |
| 1924 | Paul DeMaine was born on October 11, 1924. |
| 1924 | John Backus was born on December 3, 1924. |
| 1924 | Charles Bachman was born on December 11, 1924. |
| 1924 | Jean Bartik was born on December 27, 1924. |
| 1924 | George Fairchild passed away on December 31, 1924 (Age: 71). |
| 1925 | Edmund Barbour passed away in 1925 (Age: 84). |
| 1925 | John Opel was born on January 5, 1925. |
| 1925 | Douglas Engelbart was born on January 30, 1925. |
| 1925 | Nikolay Brusentsov was born on February 7, 1925. |
| 1925 | Robert Barton was born on February 13, 1925. |
| 1925 | Heinz Nixdorf was born on April 9, 1925. |
| 1925 | Mark Pinsker was born on April 24, 1925. |
| 1925 | The Western Electric Research Laboratories and the Engineering Department of AT&T consolidated and formed Bell Telephone Laboratories. |
| 1925 | John Cocke was born on May 30, 1925. |
| 1925 | Fredrik Bull passed away on June 7, 1925 (Age: 43). |
| 1925 | David Huffman was born on August 9, 1925. |
| 1995 | Bell Labs was founded in 1925 as a subsidiary of AT&T. |
| 1925 | Seymour Cray was born on September 28, 1925. |
| 1926 | The first joystick was invented by C.B. Mirick at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. |
| 1926 | Ken Olsen was born on February 20, 1926. |
| 1926 | Stanley Gill was born on March 26, 1926. |
| 1926 | Packard Bell was founded in 1926. |
| 1926 | Paul Baran was born on April 29, 1926. |
| 1926 | Oliver Selfridge was born on May 10, 1926. |
| 1926 | John Kemeny was born on May 31, 1926. |
| 1926 | John Diebold was born on June 8, 1926. |
| 1926 | Fernando Corbató was born on July 1, 1926. |
| 1926 | Carl Petri was born on July 12, 1926. |
| 1926 | The first patent for the semiconductor transistor was created. |
| 1926 | Arthur Rock was born on August 19, 1926. |
| 1926 | Kristen Nygaard was born on August 27, 1926. |
| 1926 | Andrew Bobeck was born on October 1, 1926. |
| 1926 | Willem Poel was born on December 2, 1926. |
| 1927 | Wesley Clark was born in 1927. |
| 1927 | David Wheeler was born on February 9, 1927. |
| 1927 | Gerard Salton was born on March 8, 1927. |
| 1927 | Bell Labs performed the first long-distance television transmission from Washington, D.C., to New York City. |
| 1927 | Allen Newell was born on March 19, 1927. |
| 1927 | Dudley Buck was born on April 25, 1927. |
| 1927 | Glen Culler was born on July 7, 1927. |
| 1927 | Theodore Maiman was born on July 11, 1927. |
| 1927 | Marvin Minsky was born on August 9, 1927. |
| 1927 | Bob Evans was born on August 19, 1927. |
| 1927 | John McCarthy was born on September 4, 1927. |
| 1927 | Philo Taylor Farnsworth became the first person to successfully transmit a TV signal on September 7, 1927. |
| 1927 | Robert Noyce was born on December 12, 1927. |
| 1928 | Jean Sammet was born in 1928. |
| 1928 | Thomas Kurtz was born on February 22, 1928. |
| 1928 | Seymour Papert was born on February 29, 1928. |
| 1928 | John Nash was born on June 13, 1928. |
| 1928 | Juris Hartmanis was born on July 5, 1928. |
| 1928 | The Galvin Manufacturing Corporation was established on September 25, 1928. The company would later be known as Motorola. |
| 1928 | Bernard Galler was born on October 3, 1928. |
| 1928 | Peter Naur was born on October 25, 1928. |
| 1928 | Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928. |
| 1928 | Joe Ossanna was born on December 10, 1928. |
| 1928 | Jack Tramiel was born on December 13, 1928. |
| 1928 | Martin Cooper was born on December 26, 1928. |
| 1929 | Harlan Anderson was born in 1929. |
| 1929 | Robert Lansdown was born on January 2, 1929. |
| 1929 | Gordon Moore was born on January 3, 1929. |
| 1929 | Edwin Turney was born on March 26, 1929. |
| 1929 | Arthur Scherbius passed away on May 13, 1929 (Age: 51). |
| 1929 | Emile Berliner passed away on August 3, 1929 (Age: 78). |
| 1929 | Herman Hollerith passed away on November 17, 1929 (Age: 69). |
| 1929 | Douglas Ross was born on December 21, 1929. |
| 1930 | Einar Stefferud was born on January 11, 1930. |
| 1930 | Geophysical Service Incorporated was founded in 1930. The company later became known as Texas Instruments. |
| 1930 | Martin Goetz was born on April 22, 1930. |
| 1930 | Edsger Dijkstra was born on May 11, 1930. |
| 1930 | Peter Landin was born on June 5, 1930. |
| 1930 | Henry Perot was born on June 27, 1930. |
| 1930 | Daniel McCracken was born on July 23, 1930. |
| 1930 | Galvin Manufacturing Corporation Auto radios began being sold as an accessory for the automobile. Paul Galvin coined the name Motorola for the company's new products, linking the ideas of motion and radio. |
| 1930 | Dorr Felt passed away on August 7, 1930 (Age: 68). |
| 1930 | Alan F. Shugart was born on September 27, 1930. |
| 1930 | Citizen was founded in 1930. |
| 1931 | James Russell was born in 1931. |
| 1931 | Valentin Turchin was born in 1931. |
| 1931 | Fletcher Jones was born on January 22, 1931. |
| 1931 | Eiichi Goto was born on January 26, 1931. |
| 1931 | Anthony (Tony) Edgar Sale was born on January 30, 1931. |
| 1931 | Elizabeth Feinler was born on March 2, 1931. |
| 1931 | Andrei Ershov was born on April 19, 1931. |
| 1931 | Frederick Brooks was born on April 19, 1931. |
| 1931 | Nobuo Mii was born on July 4, 1931. |
| 1931 | Morris Chang was born on July 10, 1931. |
| 1931 | Michael Rabin was born on September 1, 1931. |
| 1931 | Ole-Johan Dahl was born on October 12, 1931. |
| 1931 | Thomas Edison passed away on October 18, 1931 (Age: 84). |
| 1931 | Jacob Ziv was born on November 27, 1931. |
| 1932 | Robert Taylor was born in 1932. |
| 1932 | Malcom Mcilroy was born in 1932. |
| 1932 | William Millard was born in 1932. |
| 1932 | Richard Karp was born on January 3, 1935. |
| 1932 | Gene Golub was born on February 29, 1932. |
| 1932 | George Eastman passed away on March 14, 1932 (Age: 77). |
| 1932 | Norman Abramson was born on April 1, 1932. |
| 1932 | Solomon Golomb was born on May 30, 1932. |
| 1932 | Jay Glenn Miner was born on May 31, 1932. |
| 1932 | Frances Allen was born on August 4, 1932. |
| 1932 | Gustav Tauschek develops drum memory. |
| 1932 | ROM-Type storage media was introduced. |
| 1932 | Robert H. Dennard was born on September 5, 1932. |
| 1932 | Dana Scott was born on October 11, 1932. |
| 1932 | Jorma Rissanen was born on October 20, 1932. |
| 1933 | Canon was established in 1933. |
| 1933 | Edwin Armstrong invented the FM radio in 1933. |
| 1933 | Stephanie Shirley was born on September 16, 1933. |
| 1933 | James Martin was born on October 19, 1933. |
| 1933 | Gerald Weinberg was born on October 27, 1933. |
| 1933 | Boris Babayan was born on December 20, 1933. |
| 1934 | Ronald Stamper was born in 1934. |
| 1934 | Seymour Rubinstein was born in 1934. |
| 1934 | Edward Fredkin was born on January 1, 1934. |
| 1934 | Donald Bitzer was born on January 1, 1934. |
| 1934 | Charles Hoare was born on January 11, 1934. |
| 1934 | Robin Milner was born on January 13, 1934. |
| 1934 | Niklaus Wirth was born on February 15, 1934. |
| 1934 | Charles Flint passed away on February 26, 1934. |
| 1934 | Ronald Wayne was born on May 7, 1934. |
| 1934 | Ralph Griswold was born on May 19, 1934. |
| 1934 | Robert Moog was born on May 23, 1934. |
| 1934 | Leonard Kleinrock was born on June 13, 1934. |
| 1934 | Gordon Bell was born on August 19, 1934. |
| 1934 | The FCC was established in 1934. |
| 1934 | The US Communication Act went into place. |
| 1934 | Max Hopper was born on November 4, 1934. |
| 1934 | Carl Sagan was born on November 9, 1934. |
| 1935 | Germany's Konrad Zuse designed the Z3, the first functioning programmable digital computer. |
| 1935 | Vladimir Levenshtein was born in 1935. |
| 1935 | Barry Boehm was born in 1935. |
| 1935 | The polygraph machine, aka lie detector, was used for the first time on February 2, 1935. |
| 1935 | Roger Needham was born on February 9, 1935. |
| 1935 | Charles Molnar was born on March 14, 1935. |
| 1935 | Jack Wolf was born on March 14, 1935. |
| 1935 | Joshua Lederberg was born on May 23, 1935. |
| 1935 | Fujitsu was established on June 20, 1935. |
| 1935 | Karen Jones was born on August 26, 1935. |
| 1935 | TDK was founded on December 7, 1935. |
| 1936 | Edward Feigenbaum was born on January 20, 1936. |
| 1936 | Germany's Konrad Zuse created the Z1, one of the first binary digital computers and a machine that could be controlled through a punch tape. |
| 1936 | While working on the radio, Paul Eisler invented the Printed Circuit Board (PCB). |
| 1936 | Abraham Lempel was born on February 10, 1936. |
| 1936 | Dvorak received a patent for the Dvorak keyboard on May 12, 1936. |
| 1936 | Robert Floyd was born on June 8, 1936. |
| 1936 | Informally, theoretical computer science was born in 1936 when Alan Turing, Alonzo Church, and Stephen Kleene formally defined algorithms in terms of computation. |
| 1936 | Richard Stearns was born on July 5, 1936. |
| 1936 | Henry F. Phillips received a patent for the Phillips screw and screwdriver on July 7, 1936. |
| 1936 | Leon Chua was born on June 28, 1936. |
| 1936 | Andrew Grove was born on September 2, 1936. |
| 1936 | Jerry Sanders was born on September 12, 1936. |
| 1936 | James Burke was born on December 22, 1936. |
| 1936 | Alan Turing developed the Turing Machine. |
| 1937 | John Conway was born in 1937. |
| 1937 | Larry Roberts was born in 1937. |
| 1937 | Charles Peddle was born in 1937. |
| 1937 | Steve Russell was born in 1937. |
| 1937 | Igor Aleksander was born in 1937. |
| 1937 | Harold Lawson was born in 1937. |
| 1937 | Iowa State College's John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry began work on creating the binary-based ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer) in 1937, considered by most to be the first electronic digital computer. |
| 1937 | Polaroid was founded in 1937. |
| 1937 | Seiko Instruments was founded in 1937. |
| 1937 | Alec Reeves developed PCM in 1937. |
| 1937 | Dabbala Reddy was born on June 13, 1937. |
| 1937 | Ted Nelson was born on June 17, 1937. |
| 1937 | Philip Estridge was born on June 23, 1937. |
| 1937 | Guglielmo Marconi passed away on July 20, 1937 (Age: 63). |
| 1937 | Patrick McGovern was born on August 11, 1937. |
| 1937 | Marcian Hoff was born on October 28, 1937. |
| 1937 | Jagadish Bose passed away on November 23, 1937 (Age: 78). |
| 1938 | Dana Ulery was born in 1938. |
| 1938 | David Lee was born in 1938. |
| 1938 | Charles Moore was born in 1938. |
| 1938 | Philibert D'Ocagne passed away in 1938. |
| 1938 | Molex was founded in 1938. |
| 1938 | Gary Starkweather was born on January 9, 1938. |
| 1938 | Donald Knuth was born on January 10, 1938. |
| 1938 | Vivitar was founded in 1938. |
| 1938 | Lynn Conway was born on January 10, 1938. |
| 1938 | Samsung was founded in 1938. |
| 1938 | Ronald Schafer was born on February 17, 1938. |
| 1938 | Manuel Blum was born on April 26, 1938. |
| 1938 | Ivan Sutherland was born on May 16, 1938. |
| 1938 | Thomas Cover was born on August 7, 1938. |
| 1938 | The company now known as Hewlett-Packard created its first product, the HP 200A. |
| 1938 | Chester Carlson produced the first electrophotographic image on October 22, 1938, which later became the Xerox machine. |
| 1938 | Orson Welles' and Houseman broadcasted H.G. Welles War of the Worlds on the airways as a Halloween spoof on October 30, 1938. |
| 1938 | Per Hansen was born on November 13, 1938. |
| 1938 | BBC creates the first science fiction television program. |
| 1938 | Stewart Brand was born on December 14, 1938. |
| 1938 | Bob Kahn was born on December 23, 1938. |
| 1939 | Paul Cress was born in 1939. |
| 1939 | Iowa State College's John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry created a prototype of the binary-based ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer) in 1939. |
| 1939 | The companies Tanaka Seisakusho and Hakunetsusha merged in 1939 to become the new company we now know as Toshiba. |
| 1939 | Hewlett-Packard was founded by William Hewlett and David Packard in 1939. The name was decided on the flip of a coin toss, and the company was officially founded on January 1, 1939. |
| 1939 | Adam Osborne was born on March 6, 1939. |
| 1939 | Dov Frohman was born on March 28, 1939. |
| 1939 | John Scully was born on April 6, 1939. |
| 1939 | Rudolf Bayer was born on May 7, 1939. |
| 1939 | Anatoliy O. Morozov was born on May 9, 1939. |
| 1939 | Peter Grunberg was born on May 18, 1939. |
| 1939 | George Stibitz completed the Complex Number Calculator capable of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing complex numbers. This device provided a foundation for digital computers. |
| 1939 | The first Radio Shack catalog was published. |
| 1939 | Cleve Moler was born on August 17, 1939. |
| 1939 | Craig Barrett was born on August 29, 1939. |
| 1939 | Charles Geschke was born on September 11, 1939. |
| 1939 | John Hopcroft was born on October 7, 1939. |
| 1939 | Neil Sloane was born on October 10, 1939. |
| 1939 | Barbara Liskov was born on November 7, 1939. |
| 1939 | Stephen Cook was born on December 14, 1939. |